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CHENNAI: Shell Global solutions will soon launch an optimisation study at Chennai Petroleum Corporation (CPCL) aimed at further improving the operations of the refinery and fetching a guaranteed additional return of $ 0.5 per barrel as refinery margin. Shell Global is a specialist in the line and has been working with refineries in various countries. It has just finished a similar study in Kochi Refineries and is currently doing one at Indian Oil's Mathura refinery. It will also be engaged by HPCL for its refinery at Visakhapatnam.

MATHURA: A 'specialists gang' operating with high precision tools managed to drill a hole and fix a valve in the crude oil pipeline coming from Gujarat to the Indian Oil Corporation's (IOC) Mathura Oil Refinery to siphon off crude oil. IOC official Ajay Pal Singh told media persons yesterday evening that a case had been registered and investigations were on. The owner of the field where the theft was detected, in Shershah village under Farah thana, is missing. It took more than 30 hours for the refinery engineers to detect the hole after pressure in the pipeline was recorded low for the past several days.

Whilst most manufacturers are running around to ensure that all their vehicles sold in Delhi, NCR and eleven other cities are Bharat Stage III compliant from April 1, oil companies state that they are not prepared to supply the fuel which will make BS III compliant vehicles actually meet the proposed norms. The octane rating was also proposed to be increased to 91 from the current 87 so that the modern fuel-injected vehicles do not have a running problem anywhere in the country. Even the cetane rating for diesel was supposed to be increased with a lower sulphur content.

KANNAUJ: State-run gas firm Gail will invest Rs 32 crore in setting up a City Gas Distribution Project in Kanpur to sell compressed natural gas (CNG) to automobiles and piped natural gas for domestic cooking and industrial use from June 2007, Petroleum Minister Ram Naik said on Wednesday. "It is proposed to set up three CNG stations for supply of natural gas to automobiles. The network would also cover domestic, commercial and industrial customers in the city," he said after inaugurating a petrol pump given to dependents of a security personnel killed in December 2001 terrorist attack on Parliament.

NEW DELHI: Reliance Industries-owned IPCL, Essar Steel, Tata Chemicals and Oswal Agro are among the private firms which have bought the entire quantity of LNG to be imported at Dahej from January 30. Promoters of Petronet LNG Ltd have tied up with non-power and non-fertilizer companies for long-term sales of entire 2.5 million tonne of liquefied natural gas that PLL will import initially from Qatar at India's maiden LNG import and re-gassification terminal...

NEW DELHI: Reliance has registered a 5.5 per cent increase in production at its Jamnagar refinery to 15.58 million tonnes in the first half of the current fiscal as against 14.76 million tonnes refinery production in the same period last year. Operating at 115.1 per cent of the installed capacity, Jamnagar, which is the world's fifth largest oil refinery, registered production at 5.3 per cent higher than planned production of 14.79 million tonnes in April-September, according to latest data released by Petroleum Ministry here.

KANNAUJ: State-run gas firm Gail will invest Rs 32 crore in setting up a City Gas Distribution Project in Kanpur to sell compressed natural gas (CNG) to automobiles and piped natural gas for domestic cooking and industrial use from June 2007, Petroleum Minister Ram Naik said on Wednesday. "It is proposed to set up three CNG stations for supply of natural gas to automobiles. The network would also cover domestic, commercial and industrial customers in the city," he said after inaugurating a petrol pump given to dependents of a security personnel killed in December 2001 terrorist attack on Parliament.

NEW DELHI: State-owned refiner Indian Oil Corporation and exploration firm Oil and Natural Gas Corporation on Sunday turned down an offer to implement privatisation-bound Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd's grassroot refinery at Bhatinda saying the project was unviable without HPCL's retail network. Senior officials of both IOC and ONGC, within minutes of the Cabinet Committee on Disinvestment (CCD) deciding that the government was committed to complete the Rs 9,500-crore refinery even if the new management of HPCL decides not to pursue it, said they would not take up the implementation.

New Delhi: The Jat community, which has been agitating to press their demand for a quota in Central government jobs, today hinted at withdrawal of their stir by tomorrow after a government assurance to look into the issue. After an hour-long meeting with Home Minister P Chidambaram and Social Justice Minister Mukul Wasnik, a delegation of Jat leaders said that they would hold a meeting of their 'core committee' by this evening or tomorrow where the request of the Central government to suspend the agitation would be discussed.

JAIPUR/NEW DELHI: A devastating fire swept through an Indian Oil fuel storage and distribution terminal on the outskirts of Jaipur. The blaze at the Indian Oil Corp facility in the desert state of Rajasthan swiftly spread out of control killing at least 12 people and injuring scores more, officials and emergency workers said. Thursday, killing at least a dozen people and injuring more than 100. The toll is likely to go up as the blaze is still raging. At the time of going to press, all 12 tankers at the terminal were aflame.